Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2012 09:13:03 -0800 From: George Hartzell <hartzell@alerce.com> To: Carsten Mattner <carstenmattner@googlemail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Single boot EFI Mac install Message-ID: <20311.38687.874857.590780@gargle.gargle.HOWL> In-Reply-To: <CACY%2BHvr0R5XAiPat15ChgErAX9VtU9C75ASgvRjxwYk7HNrRcQ@mail.gmail.com> References: <CACY%2BHvr0R5XAiPat15ChgErAX9VtU9C75ASgvRjxwYk7HNrRcQ@mail.gmail.com>
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Carsten Mattner writes: > Has anyone successfully installed FreeBSD as a single boot system > on an EFI Mac? I'm not sure exactly what you mean by a single boot system. I have Mac Pro that runs Mac OS on on disk (actually a pair in a software RAID) and FreeBSD from another pair (gmirror RAID). I suspect that I could pull the MacOS disks from the system and it would happily run as a FreeBSD only machine. I believe that I set up the disks using the mac tools and then did an install from a DVD, but it's been a while. The only particularly trick-ish part is that I had to partition the FreeBSD disks using MBR style partitions, that's (part of?) what the Mac firmware uses to decide to turn on it's PC-style BIOS emulation, which FreeBSD needs before it can get itself going. GPT partitions will not work. Every once in a while the machine hangs at boot time but I haven't seen it in a while. What happens if you just throw a FreeBSD DVD in the drive? g.
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